The linguistic dimensions of Gukurahundi in Zimbabwe
- Authors: Maseko, Busani , Nkomo, Dion
- Date: 2022
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , book chapter
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/468075 , vital:77005 , ISBN 9781779224286
- Description: This chapter explores the linguistic dimensions of Gukurahundi to ad-dress claims that the operation was anything other than a genocide. When discussing genocide, Lang (2020) reveals the connection be-tween genocidal acts and language. Writing on the Nazi Holocaust, Lang (2020: 155) lays bare the nexus between genocides and lan-guage. To escape the consequences of language, for worse or for bet-ter, would require an impossible step outside history for its speakers or writers no less than for its audience–and whatever else we discover about the Nazi genocide. The background to this claim is broader than the specific evidence of the role of language in the Nazi genocide. The existence of a causal relation between language and history, between linguistic practice and events in the social context, would be disputed only on the view of language as neutral and transparent medium. Tes-timony comes from many different sources of the history of language as ‘real’history, evolving in direct relation to features of the historical and social context. On general grounds, it is predictable that linguistic de-velopments which occurred at the time of Nazi genocide would disclose features resembling those of the process of genocide itself; it would be difficult to understand how the latter might occur without corresponding changes in language (Lang 2020: 155).
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- Date Issued: 2022
Multilingualism for teaching and learning
- Authors: Maseko, Pamela
- Date: 2014
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , book chapter
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/468436 , vital:77054 , ISBN 9781920677565
- Description: This chapter will address a number of issues pertaining to multilingualism for teaching and learning in South African higher education during the SANTED II Programme. It will provide the national and institutional language policy context for the SANTED multilingualism projects, the challenges of implementation, the strategies used for implementation and monitoring, and the institutional uptake of the programmes at the end of the SANTED II Programme in 2010. The discussion will illustrate how the pilot projects introduced through SANTED provided a springboard for implementation of multilingual learning and teaching. The chapter will further demonstrate that while some universities had policies that supported multilingualism, in most cases these policies were largely dormant. The pilot projects provided the means for activating them and institutionalising practices conceptualised therein. The process itself provided impetus for robust debates on the value of bilingual and multilingual education for effective learning in higher education, as well as the importance of linguistic and cultural diversity in building national unity.
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- Date Issued: 2014
Human Rights and Conflict Transformation in Africa
- Authors: Juma, Laurence
- Date: 2013
- Language: English
- Type: text , book
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/127449 , vital:36012 , ISBN 9789956790418 , http://www.africanbookscollective.com/books/human-rights-and-conflict-transformation-in-africa
- Description: This study maps the interactions between human rights norms and values, on the one hand, and conflict resolution, post–conflict peace-building and reconstruction, on the other. It advances the view both from a theoretical and practical standpoint, that human rights have a role to play throughout the life of any conflict: from the pre-conflict to the post-conflict and reconstruction stages. Identifying entry points for human rights in the pre-conflict stage leading up to the establishment of the rule of law and societal reconstruction after the conflict, this book uses Sierra Leone and Democratic Republic of Congo experiences to illustrate the obstacles, the successes, and the significance of human rights norms to the overall peace agenda in societies afflicted by conflict.
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- Date Issued: 2013
Kileleshwa: A tale of love, betrayal and corruption in Kenya
- Authors: Juma, Laurence
- Date: 2010
- Language: English
- Type: text , book
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/129196 , vital:36243 , ISBN 9789956616350 , http://www.africanbookscollective.com/books/kileleshwa-a-tale-of-love-betrayal-and-corruption-in-kenya
- Description: When Sembe discovers that Amu, her husband of fifteen years, is having an affair with another woman, she moves out of the matrimonial home, but is persuaded to return by relatives and friends. However, a few months later, when Amu comes home to reveal that his mistress is pregnant with his child, everything crumbles. Kileleshwa is a tale of love, betrayal and corruption, set on a background of ethnic incongruity, political uncertainty and very difficult economic times.
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- Date Issued: 2010